Mortar Bombs Emerge from Abandoned Well
BATTICALOA: SPECIAL TASK FORCE (STF) troops during a search and clear operation in PUTTUR area found sixty 81 mm mortar bombs on Friday (2). They had been hidden in an abandoned well in the area.
BATTICALOA: SPECIAL TASK FORCE (STF) troops during a search and clear operation in PUTTUR area found sixty 81 mm mortar bombs on Friday (2). They had been hidden in an abandoned well in the area.
MULLAITTIVU: ONE more earth bund built by the LTTE terrorists across the A-35 MULLAITTIVU road was breached and taken over by the valiant soldiers moving southwards along the pitch of land between the A-35 road and the NANTHI KADAL lagoon Sunday (3) morning. Terrorists relentlessly used maximum firepower to hold on to the bund with a length of about 500 m from the east to the west, but troops overpowered terrorist resistance and captured the bund killing a number of LTTE frontliners.
AMPARA: SPECIAL TASK FORCE (STF) troops attached to the KARATIVU STF camp following information conducted a search in the general area of KARAKADAPALLIYA and recovered one pistol, sixty rounds of ammunition and two hand grenades Saturday (2) around 7.30 p.m.. Those items were found from an abandoned toilet pit.
MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS continued to consolidate their positions and countered heavy terrorist resistance during their advance further towards the area where LTTE terrorist leaders are confirmed to be hiding in the “No Fire Zone” (NFZ) in the past 36 hours ending Monday (4) morning. Ground reports said at least 25-30 terrorists were killed or severely injured during intermittent clashes, from where the terrorists after keeping entrapped civilians as hostages were directing fire. A few soldiers sustained injuries in the fighting around west of VELLAMULLAVAIKKAL were evacuated for medical treatment.
COIMBATORE: A convoy of Army trucks was attacked near the Neelambur bypass road here on Saturday by Tamil chauvinists belonging to the Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (PDK) who claimed that the vehicles were transporting weapons for the Sri Lankan Army for use in the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Over 100 activists, armed with stones and logs, blocked the convoy which was ferrying Army personnel, who had completed field training in Secunderabad, to the Madukkarai regiment in Coimbatore district. The windscreens of some vehicles were smashed, and many tyres deflated. The PDK is a breakaway fringe group of the Dravidar Kazhagam.
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa told the visiting Special Envoy from Japan , Yasushi Akashi, that he was firm in his own commitment and that of his Government to free the Sri Lankan Tamil citizens who remained being held as hostages by the LTTE. At a breakfast meeting at Janadhipathi Mandiraya on Saturday, there was a wide ranging discussion of the humanitarian situation in the North, especially regarding the continuing presence of Tamil civilians held as hostages by the LTTE in the No Fire Zone, and the many thousands of civilians who had escaped from the LTTE to the cleared areas of the Government.
WE hope that even now the LTTE will change its attitude and let the IDPs in areas it still holds move to other areas, as several thousands of others had already done, Japan’s special envoy for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Yasushi Akashi told a media briefing in Colombo on Saturday. “It is heartwarming that people from the South of Sri Lanka, most of them Sinhalese, are collecting goods and money for the internally displaced people from the north. I hope this spirit of harmony and friendship will prevail in the future,” he said.....
COORDINATOR of the World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka (WAPS) Jivinda de Silva says the WAPS is playing a leading role to counter false propaganda launched by the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora throughout the world on Sri Lanka. WAPS Coordinator in an interview with the Daily News expressed his views on the moves taken by the WAPS in collaboration with various organizations formed by the patriotic Sinhala Diaspora to defeat the LTTE’s false propaganda campaign by educating the international community on the true nature of the LTTE terrorists.
AT LEAST fifteen overseas based Tiger terrorists, their proxies or supporters who have been for the last 1-2 weeks blocking Canadian highways and public places disturbing peace in TORONTO, OTTAWA and ONTARIO have now been arrested by the Canadian Police, bringing the string of LTTE provoked protests to an apparent abrupt end. Thousands of LTTE backed youngsters of the third generation who knew nothing about what was on in Sri Lanka were made to protest in the streets talking of the “genocide” of Tamils. Some of them were herded to wage assaults on Sri Lanka’s Consular General’s office and demonstrate in front of Parliament Hill, US embassy, UN organization and a few more public places in the past fortnight.
“SENEHASA”, the Army Seva Vanitha Army Branch (SVAB) advertisement for its project was adjudged the ‘Best of the Bests’ and awarded the prestigious GRAND PRIX during the annual “CHILLIES 2009” Award ceremony held at Colombo Exhibition and Conventional Centre Saturday (2) night. The Colombo-based “Triad” advertising Company produced this creative piece for the SVAB to assist its fund raising campaign for “SENEHASA” special school coming up in Manning town, Narahenpita for the children with special needs and attention who are from War Hero families.
